The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-04-20


piece of sod with its plants to q properly
hill in the garden.
A Western inventor claims that prairie
grass, ground into pulp with corn-stalks
and pressed into blocks, makes TN excellent
substitute for wood and coal.
Eggs intended for Matching should not be
over TWO weeks old. II much older it takes
longer 70 hatch them, and the chicks are,
as a general thing, not so thrifty.
Milk may be canned just as you would
can fruit. Bring the milk to the boiling
point and fill your jars 70 the brim with it;
then shut alright. This will keep any
length of time, and be just as good when
opened as when twas put up.
Some carefully conducted experiments
made in Germany appear to prove conclu-
in rows running north and south contain
more sacharine matter than those raised
in rows running east and west.
Every improvement in the garden, says
demand for the doctors ervices. Let
fruits do away with the dentnd for drugs
of all kinds, and excellent vegetables in
part replace the excessive use of animal
food.
One thing seems 10 have been quite well
Observation-Disclosures larger quantity Of
potatoes, as well as potatoes of better
quality, can be raised with chemical fer
tililers than with manure.
Before going into silk culture ind out
what varieties your land is best adapted to
produce, and give those varieties the pref
erence. Situation as well as soil adapta
ton should be considered.
When you wash young trees use a cloth.
On old ones a stiff scrub-brush is better, as
il will dislodge insects that have taken up
quarters beneath the scales of the bark.
Not only does the linden tree produce
honey in great abundance, but its quality
is regarded by many as equal, if not
superior, to that yielded by white clover.
Thin out instead of shortening in tree
when you transplant it. 1t is mistaken
notion that il is the proper way to cut off
the ends ofsall the limbs.
Dandelions willows. and skunk cabbage
are the first to yield honey to the bees in
spring. Then comes the blossoms of fruit,
hard maple, white clover, small fruits.
Eastwood sumach, winding up with golden
rod, aster, Spanish needle and smart-weed.
A large amount OF alfalfa seed will be
sown in Montana Territory this spring for
the purpose of raising fodder for cattle
during the winter. The experiments made
last season were highly successful.
During the year 1856 II 600 pounds of
beeswax were shipped from California by
sea to Europe; Il 600 pounds by overland
by rail, mostly to New York, .snd 5000
pounds via Panama to New York.
An apiarlst in France claims that he has
made experiments which prove that only
from six to eight pounds of honey are
used by the bees to produce pound OF
comb.
Some sugar was made in Dakota this
spring from sap obtained from white maple
trees set.out since the Territory was settled.
A surmise has been thrown out that the
mysterious phenomena of 'clover sick
ness" which is so perplexing TO the con-
trivers OF desirable rotations OF crops, may
possibly be found IN the presence of tylen-
chus devastatrix, q microscopic eel worm
which causes the disease known as tulip
root" in oats, and also infests rye, clover,
buckwheat, teazel, spurrey. onions and
certain weeds and grasses. Even il clover
sickness should be traced to this eel-worm
q stiff problem would remain-how to get
rid OF it? Miss Ormerod, in her "Report of
Observations on Injurious Insects" men,
tons dressings of gas-lime and blowing two
burrows Deep but the principal recon-
mendation is to exclude from the rotation
the crops subject to the eel-worm till the
land is again clear of the pest.
The very latest of the numerous schemes
for getting rid of rabbits is the invention OF
Mr.. Williams, an Englishman, now resid.
ing In Auckland, New Zealand, who has
contrived portable apparatus by means OF
which, in single night, he guarantees
that he will trap and carry off at least 90
per cent. of the rabbits upon square mile
| of land. One of the great merits claimed
for the plan is that it allows of the rabbits
being used for food, with which end in
view light freezing apparatus, mounted
| on wheels, is provided, SO that the bodies
| of the rabbits may be frozen and kept in
that condition until they are delivered
over to shipping company for export to
England.
1t is said that the amount of dead" cap
| ital invested in farm fences in the United
States alone reaches the immense aggregate
OF s., 900 900, 900, and that the construction
| OF new fences and the rene wal of old ones
involves an outlay of no less than 5000,
100000 annually. 1t is difficult to fix an
/ approximate idea of what immense sums
as these represent, but some conception OIL
this enormous investment may be formed
from the fact that it nearly eq uals the. cap
ital stock of all the railroads of the coun
try, while the annual expense almos
parallels the entire revenue of the National
| Government.
At meeting OF English hop-growers
called for the purpose OF inducing the Gov
vernment to place duty on foreign hops
Colonel Brookield said the hop growing in
dustry was now threatened with extinc
| ton. 1t was calculated that the extent Il
which hops had been grubbed was between
5000 to 10 600 acres. This had a most seri
Gus effect on the laboring classes, for Will,
100 acres of arabic land gave employment
to only four men, and 100 acres of pastur,
land gave employment not even to on,
man, the same quantity of hops employed
from thirty-five to fifty laboring men witt
women and children. The amount spen
for labor alone on one acre was about $50
and that was entirely on manual labor
which no mechanical ingenuity could dis
pense with. The industry was being ruined
by the free admission of foreign hops int,
the English markets.
| President Fowler, of the Minnesota Dairy
mems Association, is reported to have sale
at recent meeting of that association tia
he had good cows, kept them clean, wei
feed, and gave them warm water in tn,
winter. He had for twenty years delivered
his butter to customers in St. Paul, ant
never had anything to come back. HI
made last year 27i pounds per cow Il
thirty-six of the shorthorn breed. the pric
last year being % cents per pound, Will,
this years it is but % Z cents. As to TIT
age of cows, he said he had those twelv
| years of sge that made over two pound
| per day, and he believed shorthorns do no
| devotion until thew are four or FIVE wear